It all started with a simple enough sounding question from one of my supervisors, something along the lines of “how do you view the world?”. As it turns out, this wasn’t so simple to answer as whatever responses came to mind were quite clearly wrapped up in layers upon

I recently passed an early milestone when my PhD project was approved to continue without any conditions after the Early Progress Review. I had previously been assured by my two supervisors that the project had been progressing appropriately, so I was not overly concerned, but it is still always good

Something I’ve been working on is writing my own definitions for four theories central to my PhD project. As these will be shared during my soon-to-begin data collection process, it was deemed necessary to make a public claim to them by first publishing them all to the internet. Without

Learning things through making huge mistakes: an effective but not very pleasant method. Last week I wrote about overcoming a monstrous case of writer's block near the beginning of my Masters. In that article I mentioned that keeping handwritten research notes turned out to be a terrible mistake.